Work has started on the building of the Goducate music learning center in Talahiban. On the first day Goducate staff and local volunteers helped to transport the materials needed to the site.
We hope it won’t be long before the present 23 music students in Talahiban will be able to be have their lessons in the center. Meanwhile they continue enthusiastically learning music outdoors, even when darkness has started to fall.
The 23 students will be joined by others as enrolment of new ones continues.
Arrival of materialsGetting materials to the siteStudents continue learning music notes outdoors in the dark.
Goducate’s music program in Laguna has been very successful in attracting youth to its music programs. Besides learning to play an instrument, the youth learn discipline, teamwork, get an opportunity to earn some income and even music scholarships to get back to school.
Presently 242 children from 11 villages are enrolled in the program. They are taught by 4 Goducate staff. 25 of them are part of the main orchestra and 16 are part of the junior orchestra. 38 of these orchestra members also serve as teachers to the younger ones – fulfilling Goducate’s philosophy that we “teach people to help themselves, and then they go on to help others,” thus creating a movement that we hope will continue to transform the lives of many Filipino youth.
There is no lack of youth who want to join our program. The bottle-neck is the availability of music instruments and a place to play their instruments. Beginners learning to play an instrument do not make music, they make painful noises! Imagine yourself living next door to a energetic group of rookie musicians!!
Goducate has been looking to rent a place in the town of Bay (Laguna) to serve as a place for music practice. With adequate sound proofing, our energetic youth can practice without sending our neighbors crazy.
Soon to be Goducate Music Center?
A place has been identified in the town of Bay (Laguna) that is central enough for the youth to come for their practice sessions. This place can also serve as a place where youth can gather to enjoy wholesome company and learn good moral values.
The Goducate veg@table project in Dayap had to be put on hold soon after it was initiated because of the dry spell over the past few months. With the installation of the first Goducate hand pump in this village, we hope the project will take off again.
The villagers get their water from hand pumps, but they were too few and far between.
The pump we have installed will serve 22 families. We hope to be able to provide a few more pumps. Each pump goes down 40 feet.
Jun, a villager who will be using the pump and who has volunteered to take charge of it. Villager watering her plants with water from Goducate pump
